The Communist Party of the Philippines today expressed doubts that Bicol revolutionary leader Joey Fajardo engaged the military and police in a shootout before being killed last March 16 in Naga City. Fajardo, 55, was killed together with Liza Beriso Ocampo, a long-time migrant worker from Dubai, who owned the house where Fajardo was temporarily staying in.

The NDFP expresses its firm solidarity with Comrade ROSALBA ROMANO, the Board of Editors of Democratic Vigilance and CARC comrades who are being put on trial at the Court of Milan. They are falsely accused of “defamation” when all they have been doing is fighting against impunity and abuses of law enforcement. They rightflly demand that torture be officially declared a crime.

Benedict Solang, an Elder in the Advisosry Council of the Cordillera People's Alliance was an activist for genuine people's development and indigenous people's rights, for national democracy and socialism, and a world without discrimination.

Makibaka, a revolutionary women's organization and allied member of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines gives a Red Salute to Kasama Petronila Cleto and pays tribute to a revolutionary woman, defender of human rights, journalist, writer, editor and organizer.